colonel lady de rutledge archibald 1883 1973 (1 résultats)

Reprint (per lack of publisher's edition statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 189 pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 13.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed and well soiled, nicks and some shallow chipping as well as several short tears at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Beige cloth, slight fraying at spine ends with small ding near heel, light mottling at upper spine with slender discolored patches occurring along top and bottom board edges. Toning and foxing to edges and endpapers; interior text pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket with Rutledge's four-line ink inscription upon the front free endpaper: "Dr and Mrs. Champ Lyons | with the love and gratitude | of their friend, | Archibald Rutledge." Uncommon book by South Carolina Poet Laureate Archibald Rutledge being a memoir of his parents Henry Middleton Rutledge and Margaret Hamilton Seabrook Rutledge. Although this book was acquired from a Jackson, Mississippi estate, the book's inscribee, Dr. Champ Lyons (1907-1965), was Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the Medical College of Alabama (now University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine). {#C1}.